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In Modi land, BJP demotes Keshubhai Patel (Lead)
Ahmedabad, March 6 (IANS) Former Gujarat chief minister Keshubhai Patel, who led a rebellion against Chief Minister Narendra Modi, will no more be chairman of the state advisory committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He will now on be just …
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Gujarat Riots: SC panel summons Modi, Cong attacks BJP
New Delhi, Mar 11 : The Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court on Thursday summoned Gujarat chief minister … We want to know Modi’s response,” SIT chief RK Raghavan told reporters. Zakia Jaffery is the widow of Ehsan …
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Congress, BJP come under fire over women reservation …
NEW DELHI: India’s two main political parties, the Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are feeling the heat from their members of parliament (MPs) for supporting the women reservation bill, which has set aside 33 percent seats …
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An upset BJP cracks the whip
NEW DELHI: Upset with some of its party MPs for speaking their minds against the Women’s Reservation Bill and fearing a virtual … followed the party line as they did toe in the Rajya Sabha ‘” BJP leader in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj got into …
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Congress suspends Sadhu Yadav
Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee(BPCC) chairman (media cell) H K Verma here said the Bill was tabled in Rajya Sabha following the consent of the All India Congress Committee. ”Therefore, any statement by a Congress leader against the Bill is …
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Govt must regret use of marshals in Rajya Sabha: BJP
New Delhi: BJP on Thursday sought to re-unite the opposition by apologising on behalf of seven MPs suspended for unruly behaviour and demanding that the government express regret for using marshals during passage of women’s bill. Opposition parties …
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Indian Congress faces turmoil over women’s bill
India’s ruling Congress party officials met on Wednesday to resolve a political standoff over a contentious women’s quota bill after two of its allies quit and left the government less elbow room to pass economic legislation. Already under fire over …
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Rebellion brewing in BJP over Women’s Reservation Bill
THE WOMEN’S Reservation Bill has exposed once again what a hollow pantomime this talk of ‘inner party democracy’ is all about. We did hear brilliant speeches of Arun Jaitly in Rajya Sabha and Swashma Swaraj in Lok Sabha. We were enlightened about …
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BJP denies divisions over Women’s Reservation Bill
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) denied on Thursday that it was divided over the women’s bill that seeks to reserve a third of all seats in the country’s legislatures for women. A day after the media quoted one of its MPs, Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav, as …
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BJP divided over Women’s Bill, party to issue whip
The working chairman of the National Democratic Alliance L K Advani [ Images ] has called a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party [ Images ] Members of Parliament on Thursday afternoon to discuss the issue of Women’s Reservation Bill amid reports of …
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